Beasts of the Southern Wild Monologues

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me lying around in invisible pieces. When I look too hard, it goes away. And when it all goes quiet, I see they are right here. I see that I'm a little piece in a big, big universe. And that makes things right. When I die, the scientists of the future, they're gonna find it all. They gonna know, once there was a Hushpuppy, and she live with her daddy in the Bathtub.

I hope you die and after you die I'll go to your grave and eat birthday cake all by myself.

Sometimes you can break something so bad, that it can't get put back together.

Everybody loses the thing that made them. It's even how it's supposed to be in nature. The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don't run.

Strong animals know when your hearts are weak, and that makes 'em hungry. And they start comin'.

The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece… the entire universe will get busted.

I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it right.

For the animals that didn't have a dad to put them in a boat, the end of the world already happened.

When an animal gets sick here, they plug it into the wall.

All the time, everywhere, everything's hearts are beating and squirting, and talking to each other the ways I can't understand. Most of the time they probably be saying: I'm hungry, or I gotta poop.

When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me flying around in invisible pieces.

The Bathtub has more holidays than the whole rest of the world.

When daddy kill me I won't be forgotten. I'm recording my story for the scientists in the future. In a million years, when kids go to school, they gonna know: Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in The Bathtub.

Back when Daddy used to talk about Mama, he says she was so pretty, she never even had to turn on the stove. She just walked into the room and all the water starts to boil.

I can count all the times I've been lifted. I can count all the times I've been lifted on two fingers.

They think we're all gonna drown down here. But we ain't going nowhere.

It didn't look like a prison, it looked more like a fish tank with no water. They say that we were here for our own good.